Links for Exploring Pagan-Heathen-Animist Spirituality
Here are some of my favorite source materials dug up in learning about my ancestors and pre-Christian peoples:
The Bosworth-Toller Anglo Saxon Dictionary
The Online Etymological Dictionary
A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic
Norse Mythology for Smart People
The Journal of Archaeomythology
Association for the Study of Women in Mythology
Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids
The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
The Gaelic Otherworld by John Gregorson Campbell
The Road to Hel by HR Ellis Davidson
The Well of Remembrance by Ralph Metzner
Irish Folk Ways by E. Estyn Evans : This is just a beginning, a start. I am constantly reading, translating ancient charms and manuscripts, learning about mythology and folklore, remedies and rituals.
I also host a ton of information at The Wild Soul School and on Patreon including my original translations, links to medieval texts, spells, charms, folk practices. This is me, sharing what I love with a commitment to offering accessible education with limitless scholarships and creating communities that support this work so I can offer so much of it for free.
As with anything, follow your own truth and path. Find your own synergies and correspondences. Claim your own way to your ancestral connections through inquiry and ritual, sharing and connecting. And when you share, cite your sources so that others can find their own way along the journey. This path is individual and winding. It began before birth and it never ends.
It includes art, story, nature, dance, food, imagination, joy, pain, repair.
It is all of life combined, to capture the scope of it is impossible.
Tiny steps, one word after another, and we walk the path.
Don't worry about getting it wrong, you will, I do, all the time. Wrong is part of the good-evil binary, and the binary is a myth we have created fairly recently in our humanness. We stumble and correct, we discover and share. There is only the way, love, reverence, return.
By this and every effort may the balance be regained.
ALU